Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested one of the wanted terrorism suspects who escaped from the Medium Security Correctional Centre, Kuje, FCT.
He was among the terrorism suspects who escaped from the prison following an attack on the facility by insurgents last week.
The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Mr. Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement Monday, saying the fleeing jailbreaker, Suleiman Sidi, was arrested in the early hours of Monday, July 11 at the Area 1 motorpark in Abuja while attempting to board a commercial vehicle to Maiduguri, Borno State.
He said when Sidi was searched, three wraps of cannabis sativa were found on him and that during a preliminary interview he confimed that he was remanded at the Kuje prison for terrorism and robbery charges.
Babafemi added that the suspect was indeed one of the inmates who escaped from the facility last Tuesday.
While commending the officers and men of the FCT Command of the agency for the arrest and their vigilance, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd.), directed that the wanted suspect should be immediately handed over to the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS).
